"You too can fly drones for the Army!"
Posted on 11/25/2013 8:27:58 AM PST by NCjim
Soldier beauty queen Theresa Vail, Miss Kansas, has entered the fray created this week when a female Army colonel at Fort Leavenworth branded another female soldier too pretty to use in Army publicity photos.
In the leaked email exchange first reported by Politico, Col. Lynette Arnhart warned her colleagues that photos of “average-looking” and “ugly” women should be used in public relations campaigns to attract more women into combat roles.
“Unfortunately that is the sick reality and one of the many stereotypes I'm trying to break,” Vail, a sergeant in the Army National Guard, wrote on Twitter Wednesday.
She added: “However, it is going to take an army of women to break that perception, not just myself.”
Politico reports that Arnhart is deputy director of the Army’s Training and Doctrine Command’s Analysis Center at Fort Leavenworth. She’s heading a study looking into ways to integrate more women into Army combat jobs.
She reportedly took issue with a Pentagon photo that ran with an article in the November issue of Army Magazine about the Army’s efforts to attract more female soldiers.
The photo showed Cpl. Kristine Tejada of the 1st Cavalry division on security detail in Iraq.
In her email, Arnhart reportedly wrote that the photo “shows a pretty woman, wearing makeup while on deployed duty. Such photos undermine the rest of the message (and may even make people ask if breaking a nail is considered hazardous duty).”
In general, Arnhart wrote, “ugly women are perceived as competent while pretty women are perceived as having used their looks to get ahead.”
According to Politico, she wrote that a photo of a female soldier with mud on her face used by news agencies last spring sent “a much different message — one of women willing to do the dirty work necessary in order to get the job done.”
Like Miss Kansas, Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.), weighed in on Twitter, calling Arnhart’s comments “another example that @USArmy just doesn’t get it as it debates if pretty girls should be used in pamphlets.”
After the email leaked, Army spokesman George Wright issued a statement saying that Arnhart’s comments “were an internal email conversation” and “not an Army position.”
FYI, the below average looking Col. was reassined after that comment.
That archeress reminds me of portraits from Victorian times of young women engaged in archery.
Watching young `toxophilites’ drawing their bow back to full arch offered one of the few opportunities in those straitlaced times to admire the female bosom.
I thought Amazons were a myth.
No Muslims would shoot at them. They’d drop their guns and grab their dicks.
What arrow?
I thought they only liked boys.
Nice bow. ok... Fine. She can come hunting with me...
How 'bout the naked pictures? Are the naked pictures coming through?
I don’t care how you do it. If you can cluster the points, you are doing it right.
I’ve been shooting the same bow for 30+ years. It still works, so why replace it?
The sad news is she is probably "one of us" and John and Mitch wouldn't want anything to do with her....
Whatever's necessary, is necessary. I don't think I'd care to try to get between Mary McCauly and that cannon at Monmouth, not favoring the taste of cannon swab.
Or Lagertha, or Boudica, or Freydis, or Brynhild, or Kahina, or Aife, or Catherine of Aragon...
You get the idea.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_women_warriors_in_folklore
If they CAN fight, let them fight. Never lower the standards, but don’t deny them if they can meet them...
Every chance they get, every liberty, and when we find them, we sure know what to do with them..
As we see, the goal is to have at least 50% women in the military, aside from the obvious of creating a weak military, it does more than shows.
Men will quit enlisting to serve in what is just another female job, and before they just quit enlisting, as they largely already started doing years ago, the first step will be that the men who do show up, will be the less warrior types, who are indifferent to/perhaps even unaware of, the female/male differences.
Here's a photo of Arnhart:
Sick and unnatural. Women should not be killers. Nor should conservatives be cheerleaders for gender bending.
Exactly. It is certainly not worth fighting for.
Conservatives really are the stupid party; there’s no perversion you can’t get them to back even as they yelp for traditional values.
But can they cook, and keep a clean house? I’m guessing no on the second part of the question, judging by the state of the barracks.
“No Muslims would shoot at them. They’d drop their guns and grab their dicks.
I thought they only liked boys.”
Baaaah - not true said the sheep.
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